#Trauma is a Time machine

[mutalieju]

TBH in the original Hellblazer it's not that all of John's friends died, lot of them did, for various reasons, (plus there's the Newcastle incident and all that personal trauma), but lot of the time the old friends John reconnects with have either abandoned their anarchist/leftist principles or revealed they never had any particularly solid politics and John is like 'wow this sucks we're all going to die' and then wanders around for a bit depressed until satan tries to kill him again

Most of new 52/DC stuff with John just refuses to interact with the political elements this way. so it is what it is and can't even really answer the question why john is depressed

[hey-heigo]

just think itd be funny if they met irl

[smolstarthief]

I've been thinking about these unused backstories for Kamoshida, Madarame, and Okumura and then Viktor still having some of the Hexcore/Arcane left in him.

Like the Kamoshida one is implied to be triggered by picking up Will Seeds so what if Viktor ends up using his previously thought to be gone powers on accident similar to how he was trying to help Vander/Warwick.

Like he makes accidental contact with the first Seed Joker picks up which triggers the first memory they witness and then continues the same pattern during the rest of Palace as a means of experimenting a little bit along with specific Shadows such as Mementos Targets. Of course it would have limits such as causing tiredness or even weakening him a bit until he gets a moment to rest (preferably in a Safe Room). Of course, the more frequently he uses it, the worser things get with him physically. Stuff like that!

Of course this would play a role in him and Maruki's dynamic much later since he does actually start exploring the man's Palace on his own after witnessing Sumi's first awakening along with Jayce (Jayce agrees with Joker and Mona about keeping the discovery under wraps for now but Viktor doesn't) and he starts to weaken to the point of being potentially vulnerable at a certain point...

[arctic-hands]

I always say the shingles saga as an immunocompromised sixteen-year-old was my near-death experience but then my mom will occasionally make musings of the time my heart stopped when I was 8 and I'm like oh yeah that happened

[platypusisnotonfire]

In one hour I'm gonna be 30.

I never thought I would see 20.

I text my brother, "do you feel young or do you feel old?"

we have orbited the sun the same amount of times. We have gone around the sun so many times apart that I'm not sure who either of us are any more. We have gone around the sun so many times together that I know we are only two halves of one person.

I am 4 years old I am 22 I am 17 I am 1000 years old and Oh so tired I am 6 and oh so scared and I need to know what the other half of us makes of the situation that we are experiencing in two different countries but together.

"I've felt old for years." he responds

Me too.

But also

I don't know if I'll ever be older than 7 and figuring out how to make us toast.

[ahalliance]

the metatron is the scariest bitch in this series because he’s like . the only powerful supernatural figure that actually knows how to manipulate people

[katiekatdragon27]

Me: EEE Tumblr say “what”?!

Me in the far far distance: What!?

I love this AU. I love this AU so much. I have so many ideas and stuff that I need to write down on paper eventually. But for now, incohesive doodles be upon yee 🫳

I love drawing expressions and action scenes. These were for practice, but they still look good lol. Also, Poison and Gumball Machine designs woah. They’re another duo like Chalky and Broomer, but they’re much more competent in heisting and negotiating with Latte in order to get bigger hauls of cash.

Also, Poison does have a gas mask she wears when not heisting cuz toxic fumes, but when they heist, she lets loose. And GM is able to shoot gumball strings, so that’s cool.

Mmm. Gorillaz. Not quite sure where this is going, probably pre-story, but that’s where Latte gets his powers from. Glubworld blessing of smth I’ll figure it out later. Although, the gem thing is implanted in his phone.

CW: VIOLENCE AND DEATH BELOW CUT:

“Glubworld gives its most dangerous battles to its gayest warriors.” ~Latte probably

More Glubworld’s blessings stuff after Latte sorta dies. Oh yeah, Latte dies lol. Twice. (That’s how you know he’s my favorite)

Something something, after dying, Latte is gifted a much more powerful gem than his original one in his phone. After seeing the city ransacked and seeing more and more people show up in Glubworld, he asks to go back and finish the job. There, he wakes up from his coma, teams with all of CB’s salty lankies, and puts an end to CB’s power trip. The power comes from a contact lens, so one swoop and he’s done.

However, the amount of power and damage done to Latte was at a lethal state. One he wasn’t able to recover from.

Yeah, this AU’s gonna have mega angst. Are these set in stone? Not sure yet. But I love writing angst so this is a win for me.

The first pic here is right after the big final Latte-CB fight above. The second shitpost image is before that (like mid-storyish) where Latte gets his ass kicked a little too hard and semi dies lol, being sent to Glubworld. Diary and Moonstone are there cuz Moonstone works for CB (blackmail) and Diary is a journalist who is super unprofessional. Also slight smartspice cuz 🤭

Please please please feel free to ask or tack on any ideas to this I really want to talk about this thing with others. Have a great day broskis :)

[quaranmine]

Something that I don’t see get brought up often enough is that. When Mumbo ate various foods (potato, carrot, pig) he turned into them! And he turned back ‘human’ by eating Grian’s soul! But why was he human before all that huh. Why was he always human before that series of events.

Like there’s been a good few fics about the fact that Mumbo and Grian now share a soul, and ones about the popular headcanon of ‘hey, Grian ain’t exactly human either, so wouldn’t Mumbo not be human after all that either?’ But very rarely so I see anyone write about Mumbo being (or, at least appearing) human before.

OMG yeah. Actually this is already in my fic notes, but I'm not far enough into the outline to have incorporated it fully. I tend to headcanon Mumbo as a shapeshifter a lot because of this. Or like, a confused one. Like he's always thought he was human or something but it's increasingly clear that he never was and has just been in vaguely human form most of his life. And what then? Who are you then, if you didn't even know that about yourself? Is it fake if you've spent your entire life as one thing only to find out you never were that to begin with and were just imitating it?

Typically my standard Mumbo Jumbo fic backstory is that he had a pretty sketchy childhood and bounced from place to place. No real parental figures? I think that's why he got semi-adopted into Hermitcraft as a teenager and the youngest person to join. So perhaps he never had direct family or influences to tell him what the deal with the shapeshifting was.

I've definitely been there done that with Mumbo and Grian sharing a soul in How to Be a Human Being, but the question of "what was Mumbo before then" is something that I never went into more than in passing. It's addressed in one or two scenes but not given much narrative weight because the story was more about navigating Watcher-related trauma of getting transformed against your will. I was supposed to go more into how them sharing a soul affected Mumbo in IBW but, ah, well I never got there....

[joyful-soul-collector]

Idk who needs to hear this but if you really like a fanfic someone has written, please don't do these things:

don't read through the whole fic and only ever comment at the very end with just "update please"

don't dump all of your trauma in the comments and talk about how this story literally stopped you from committing suicide. Talking about how the story helped you and that you've been through similar experiences is fine, but please do not tell me the story singlehandedly stopped you from killing yourself.

please do not describe said attempt to kill yourself in detail in the comments directly addressing the author. Just don't do that please.

PLEASE DO NOT EVER IMPLY THAT IF THE AUTHOR DOESN'T UPDATE THE STORY, YOU'RE GOING TO KILL YOURSELF. DON'T DO THAT. PLEASE DO NOT EVER DO THAT. NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER DO THAT.

-sincerely an author who had that happen to him just now and has had things like that happen before (though to a less extreme degree)

[dribs-and-drabbles]

Thinking about:

The two moments in ep 1 (6:08) and ep 2 (32:37) when Jihyun is seen in the background between Jaewon and Tae Hyung/Eun Ji respectively.

The way Jaewon's taller shadow engulfs Jihyun's smaller shadow as Jaewon walks towards Jihyun on the beach in ep 2.

Yoon Won singing on the beach.

Just how fantastic Yoon Won, Ae Ri, and Jihyun's boss are.

How it looks like Jaewon drew himself and his younger brother and maybe a young Jihyun in the landscape of the Han river in ep 4.

The way Jaewon tugs Jihyun into him after putting the rucksack on Jihyun in ep 4 (7:03).

The tale of the country mouse who ran back home (ep 4)...and me wondering if it's foreshadowing a separation and/or time skip in future eps.

Jihyun keeping Jaewon's art in case he becomes famous...and me wondering if that will come back if there's a time skip/separation at the end.

The fact that the therapist is always in the same top, which might indicate that the therapy scenes are all from the same session...maybe meaning everything else that's happening are flashbacks from the time of the session...which ends in ep 5. There are no scenes of the therapy session in ep 6.

The bust on the shelf in the therapists room, with hands over its eyes...

Jihyun's dream of going to the Hanson Tower with a lover and putting a lock up there...and me hoping he'll do that with Jaewon.

The "traffic won't stop for you" sign behind Jaewon as he gets drunk in ep 5 and talks about siblings. If it turns out his brother died because he ran into the road I will throw fists.

The way Jaewon's little brother is dressed in a light blue t-shirt with something cream over the top in the flashback and then Jihyun is also wearing light blue/grey under a cream jacket in the next scene.

Jaewon's "We are always living in other's frameworks in this world". And "Don't try to get out of the box".

The silence as the credits roll at the end of ep 6.

[a-star-that-burns-brightly]

DRDT Canon: Whit is a light sleeper because he can’t sleep when there’s light My edgy ass: Whit is a light sleeper because he often has nightmares about his mother and her death that wake him up easily

[natjennie]

oohhh june I want to support women's wrongs so bad but you're making it kinda hard.

[marenwithanm]

Girl help I've become a trekie a few decades late.

[lord-squiggletits]

In general Barber writing the whole "Cybertronians are stuck in an endless cycle of violence" thing was a really good idea but it sometimes felt as if he put more priority on the colonists lecturing Cybertronians about how evil and bloodthirsty they are instead of like, having a shred of sympathy for the fact that they were all collectively traumatized by a 4 million year war and even before the war their society was violent/oppressive/dysfunctional so literally no Cybertronian has lived a life untouched by pointless death.

Like, there's "these characters have an outside perspective so of course they don't understand" in universe logic that I understand and even enjoy, but then there's what Barber did which was basically make the story an endless trudge of people fighting each other and never getting better and there was the fucking Onyx Shockwave story that was "yeah that colonization? Yeah I was actually the one that organized the Primes and said that colonizing was a good idea because I wanted to cause chaos lol my master is death and suffering" so it's like. Okay so the entire history of the entire Cybertronian race was organized by one guy, rendering the decisions of all the other characters (including Shockwave himself) basically pointless.

And on top of that I have to sit here listening to these Camien et al OC's constantly complaining and bitching and moaning about how Cybertronians are the stupidest most stubborn assholes ever, why can't they just stop being petty and stop fighting, why is everything their fault. They say this as their own planets sit on the ruins of colonized civilizations. And one of the primary targets of their criticism and bitching is Optimus Prime, who spent the 4 million year war trying to help organics Not Get Colonized and then spent most of phase 2 continuing to try and Help Earth Not Get Colonized Again.

[schvvaa]

there should be a wikihow page on how to not feel like you're being hunted down for sport whenever someone hits on you

[beanghostprincess]

The Sanji backpain thing made me think of a post wano scenario where that pain has faded away. He expected to be happy about this, it was only recently after wholecake he was comfortable sharing his pain at all and now it's gone. But he couldn't be. For so long he defined himself by the pain he was able to stomach, and more recently the pain he could share. Now it was gone. Is this how his brothers felt? Was not the modifications but rather the loss of something to define themselves by that made them such monsters? He thought about Franky, his friend made mostly of metal and wires, but no one could doubt his humanity for a second. Perhaps he no longer had to define himself by his pain, maybe this love would work too

Aw :(( My boy. I actually absolutely love what happened to him because the whole "you might be similar to your blood relatives but you're not them" and "you're still human and yourself even if you've changed" hits close to home. And the fact that you added Franky here is just so,,, Good. I always make Sanji find comfort in Robin or Brook but Franky??? I thought about that before but never wrote anything about it and I love it. Ship of Theseus type of thing.